This program is a waste, because of the difficulty of updating

[Guest]

I have been trying to keep the program up to date when it will not update
itself. I uninstall, redownload, install, nothing fixes it. I have to
manually go in and somehow rip out the definitions to get it to update. This
is a waste of my time, surely microsoft could do better than that, or wait,
no.

 

[Guest]

Another user reports that this works successfully (I did something similar
and have had no problems since then):

Step 1:
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1. Click Start, click Run, type "msiexec /x
{A5CC2A09-E9D3-49EC-923D-03874BBD4C2C}" (without quotation marks) in the Open
box, and then click OK.
2. Download and install the Windows Installer Cleanup utility from this
following link:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/9/D/E9D80355-7AB4-45B8-80E8-983A48D5E1BD/msicuu2.exe
3. Run the utility from Start -> All Programs -> Windows Install Clean Up.
4. Select the Windows Defender Definition file entry from the list
and click Remove.
Step 2:
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1. Open Internet Explorer.

2. Please go to Microsoft Update:
http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/ and install the updates for
Windows Defender.

Done all the above the Defender updated and work to perfection.

 

[Guest]

This seems to have worked. I've installed Definition Update 1.14... over a
dozen times and it says "Update Successful" but it always wanted to update it
again. At least that has finally stopped so maybe everything's ok.

Thanks for the good advice and your clear directions.

Dozzit